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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER LIII ALEXANDER'S CAMPAIGNS IN INDIA TO HIS RETREAT FROM THE HYPHASIS
- CHAP. LIV ALEXANDER'S PASSAGE DOWN THE INDUS AND RETURN TO SUSA
- CHAP. LV FROM ALEXANDER'S RETURN TO SUSA TO HIS DEATH
- CHAP. LVI FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER TO THE END OF THE LAMIAN WAR
- CHAP. LVII FROM THE END OF THE LAMIAN WAR TO CASSANDER'S OCCUPATION OF ATHENS
- CHAP. LVIII FROM CASSANDER'S OCCUPATION OF ATHENS TO THE TREATY BETWEEN ANTIGONUS AND PTOLEMY, CASSANDER AND LYSIMACHUS, IN 311 B. C.
- CHAP. LIX FROM THE PEACE OF 311 TO THE BATTLE OF IPSUS
CHAP. LVIII - FROM CASSANDER'S OCCUPATION OF ATHENS TO THE TREATY BETWEEN ANTIGONUS AND PTOLEMY, CASSANDER AND LYSIMACHUS, IN 311 B. C.
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER LIII ALEXANDER'S CAMPAIGNS IN INDIA TO HIS RETREAT FROM THE HYPHASIS
- CHAP. LIV ALEXANDER'S PASSAGE DOWN THE INDUS AND RETURN TO SUSA
- CHAP. LV FROM ALEXANDER'S RETURN TO SUSA TO HIS DEATH
- CHAP. LVI FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER TO THE END OF THE LAMIAN WAR
- CHAP. LVII FROM THE END OF THE LAMIAN WAR TO CASSANDER'S OCCUPATION OF ATHENS
- CHAP. LVIII FROM CASSANDER'S OCCUPATION OF ATHENS TO THE TREATY BETWEEN ANTIGONUS AND PTOLEMY, CASSANDER AND LYSIMACHUS, IN 311 B. C.
- CHAP. LIX FROM THE PEACE OF 311 TO THE BATTLE OF IPSUS
Summary
While Antigonus was engaged, as we have seen, on the western coast of Asia, Eumenes had availed himself of the leisure thus afforded him, to take possession of the authority with which he was invested by Polysperchon. It was a task of infinite difficulty and danger. He was soon forced to quit Cappadocia, by the arrival of Menander and a body of troops, sent in pursuit of him by Antigonus. By a forced march he crossed the Taurus, and in Cilicia met Antigenes and Teutamus. They submitted to the royal mandate, and received him with respect, as commander-in-chief. The jealousy of the Macedonians was subdued by admiration of his genius, and by sympathy with the strange vicissitudes of his fortune. The guardians of the treasury at Quinda also surrendered it to his disposal. Still he saw himself surrounded by officers of high spirit and ambitious views, who looked upon themselves as personally superior to the foreigner whom accident had placed above them, and by troops, proud of their services, spoiled by license and flattery, impatient of discipline and subordination. He perceived that their fidelity could only be secured by the most studied show of moderation and humility: that he must keep his personal pretensions as much as possible in the back-ground, and put forward the legitimate authority in the name of which he claimed their obedience. He therefore declared at once, that he would not accept the 500 talents which had been assigned to him for the supply of his own wants.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 265 - 317Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1840